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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Network Nut <sillystack@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WaitForMultipleObjects/etc. In Kernel
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:33:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E554EC.3090900@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00d901cf1a19$0ea62db0$2bf28910$@gmail.com>

Network Nut wrote:
> I think that the facility by which a thread can block while waiting for any
> of several synchronization primitives (*mutex*, *semaphore*, *event*, *waitable
> timer*)...is not only "nice to have", but fundamental to complex (clean)
> multi-threaded programming.

You mean a facility like (e)poll, which can wait for things like timerfd,
signalfd, or eventfd?


Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-26 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-25 22:01 WaitForMultipleObjects/etc. In Kernel Network Nut
2014-01-26 18:33 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2014-01-26 22:10   ` Network Nut
2014-01-27  9:06     ` Clemens Ladisch
2014-01-27 19:50       ` Network Nut
2014-01-28  9:04         ` Clemens Ladisch
2014-01-28 21:07           ` Network Nut
2014-01-29  8:30             ` Clemens Ladisch
2014-01-30 23:49               ` Network Nut
2014-01-31 17:05                 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2014-01-31 22:35                   ` Network Nut
2014-01-31 22:53                     ` Clemens Ladisch
2014-01-31 23:00                       ` Network Nut
2014-01-31 23:08                         ` Network Nut

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